Flexible solar panels placed on top of steel W-beam guardrails in Holland could be the answer to rider concerns about the safety of some barriers. The solar panels create a smooth top on the guard ...

Can you use railway tracks not just to carry trains, but to generate the very electricity that powers them? Well, Switzerland is putting the unusual idea to the test. In a Rs 6.04 crore (585,000 Swiss ...

Demand for traction power on the world’s rail networks is escalating and many traditional grids are at full, or nearly full capacity. Credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com In 2014 in Bern, Switzerland, ...

COMMUTERS MAY not have paid them much attention, but a small array of solar panels next to the railway line at Aldershot, a town 50km (30 miles) south-west of London, could herald a greener future for ...

In the past few years, the railway industry has been willing to at least consider technologies once thought to be unusual or unconventional—autonomous or semi-autonomous freight and passenger trains, ...

Solar panels are being rolled out “like carpet” on railway tracks in Switzerland. Swiss start-up Sun-Ways is installing panels near Buttes train station in the west of the country in May, pending sign ...

Gizmag first reported on the JPods system back in 2012 when the concept was in its infancy. Now plans are afoot to build and test the solar-powered, suspended, individual carriage rail system in ...